The National Election Commission announced on the 5th that the final turnout for the 20th presidential election held for two days from the 4th was 36.93%.
It is the highest turnout since 2014, when advance voting was first applied to national elections.
The previous highest nationwide election turnout was 26.69% at the time of the 2020 April 15 general election. In the last presidential election in 2017, the rate was 26.06%.
In the preliminary voting that started at 6 am the previous day, 16,32,602 out of a total of 44,19,7692 electors completed their voting, but on this day, the voting for corona confirmed and quarantined people experienced great chaos, causing the voting deadline to be delayed by regarding 4 hours. suffered
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